New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper — The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.

RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier — People have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring the files to their other computers and mobile devices. — This has not happened nearly as much with DVDs, for both practical and legal reasons.

A Web OS? Are You Dense? — People are calling Google Chrome a “Web Operating System” and a “Cloud Operating System”. Some are even calling it a Windows killer. — I think it's time to nip this horses**t in the bud, before it gets out of hand. — How Does Arringtons Know What Operating Systems Is?

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility — Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulated with half-baked Google web products in the four years since GMail was released.

Big Marketers Challenge Google-Yahoo Deal — Trade Group Calls for Justice Department To Block Planned Search-Ad Partnership — Some of the country's biggest marketers are rallying to oppose an advertising deal between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., as the Justice Department considers whether to go to court to block the agreement.

Esquire October 2008 E-Ink Issue! — Yep, I got one! In hand, fresh from the newsstand. For the October issue of Esquire, they decided to release 100,000 issues with the world's first E-Ink magazine cover. The E-Ink display is the same technology used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader.

Rick Sanchez Debuts Twitter on TV — Today at 3 p.m. EST, CNN's promiscuous social media adopter Rick Sanchez debuts a TV show called Rick Sanchez Direct. — This may be of some cultural significance, in that that the program appears to be about/from/in/around [insert your favorite preposition] Twitter.

Say Where brings voice recognition to iPhone apps … If you've spent any time using iPhone apps, you probably have gotten a hint of the fact that they may well be the hottest thing going and, in some ways, the future of software. — That's largely due to the fact that, especially with iPhone 3G …

Critical Vulnerability Patched in Google's Chrome — A Vietnamese security company has found a critical vulnerability in Google's new browser Chrome, but Google has already released patch for that problem and at least one more. — The vulnerability is one of several problems identified …

Paper tale — The future of paper is starting to look a little less certain, says Bill Thompson — The UK launch of the Sony Reader has sparked another round of frenzied speculation over the future of the printed book in a world of screens, networks and digital data.

Know where fast — “This is, in a sense, a social network of dead people,” Steven Johnson told this year's dConstruct conference in Brighton. — Mr Johnson was a keynote speaker at the gathering which brought together technologists, and theorists involved in the social web.

Critics Say Gates-Seinfeld Duo No Laughing Matter — Microsoft Ads Draw Attention, Not Praise; Missing the Creativity? — Jerry Seinfeld's long-running sitcom is often described as a show about nothing. The same might be said of a baffling new Microsoft Corp. commercial featuring …